Edouard Pignede

Edouard Pignede

@epignede.bsky.social

PhD student on environmental and development economics AgroParisTech and Climate Economic Chair https://edouardpignede.github.io/

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The first chapter of my PhD entitled **Who carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub-Saharan Africa** has just been published in the *American Journal of Agricultural Economics*. doi.org/10.1111/ajae... Here is a summary of my findings!

doi.orgWho carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub‐Saharan AfricaDroughts can dramatically affect economic activities, especially in developing countries where more than half the labor force is in the agricultural sector. This paper highlights the causal impact of...

I am delighted that my thesis, "The poverty-environment trap: Climate change, natural resources and population dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa," has received the Prize of the Association Française de Science Economique (AFSE)!

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🔔 New study: palm oil prices & unregulated deforestation 🔔 doi.org/10.1002/ajae... 🪚🔥🌴 Tropical forest loss for oil palm has slowed in Indonesia. Yet, because conservation schemes barely address smallholder and illegal industrial expansion, rising market forces may revive deforestation.

doi.orgPrice incentives and unregulated deforestation: Evidence from Indonesian palm oil millsGlobal demand shifts and supply chain interventions have the potential to reduce palm oil's environmental footprint, especially in otherwise unregulated plantations. This ultimately depends on defore...

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Just out: the latest version of our paper on gender and carbon footprints!

ifs.org.ukThe gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications | Institute for Fiscal StudiesWe document that women emit 26 percent less than men from food and transport, using detailed consumption data from France.

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications 📗 @leroutierm.bsky.social and @ondineberland.bsky.social use detailed consumption data from France to document that women emit 26 percent less than men from food and transport: ifs.org.uk/publications...

In Ethiopia, the richest households increase their time devoted to non-agricultural activities (sending a member to migrate for work, for example), and thanks to the higher labor productivity in this sector, they increase their real income.

My results show that the droughts significantly increase inequality in both countries. Low-income households experienced a drop in real income of 40%, while high-income households increased their income in Ethiopia and were not affected in Malawi.

The first chapter of my PhD entitled **Who carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub-Saharan Africa** has just been published in the *American Journal of Agricultural Economics*. doi.org/10.1111/ajae... Here is a summary of my findings!

doi.orgWho carries the burden of climate change? Heterogeneous impact of droughts in sub‐Saharan AfricaDroughts can dramatically affect economic activities, especially in developing countries where more than half the labor force is in the agricultural sector. This paper highlights the causal impact of...

In this paper, I measure the causal impact of the droughts of 2015 in Ethiopia and 2016 in Malawi on the distribution of income using a recent empirical method that generalizes the difference-in-differences method to the entire income distribution.

I apply this method to three waves of geo-referenced household panel data from LSMS-ISA linked with a high-resolution drought index: the SPEI. I exploit the specific spatial and temporal pattern of droughts in the countries to isolate the causal impact of these droughts on income distribution.

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🎓 [PhD defense] Congratulations to @romainfillon.bsky.social who has just defended his thesis “Climate Uncertainties” under the supervision of Céline Guivarch (ENPC, CIRED) and Vincent Martinet (INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay). 👉🏼https://www.centre-cired.fr/soutenance-de-these-romain-fillon/

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